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Adeptandy

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Arable Farmer
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PE15
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Drilling nightmare, laid W Barley straw

So out with the discs, 3 passes on the bad spots and it drilled

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Managed to get it rolled ..........just

Anyone else detest rolling with a passion ?

Auto steer is a step closer after the nightmare drilling and then getting the rolls out. [emoji848]
Next it will be spraying with no tramlines [emoji30]
 

Shutesy

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Arable Farmer
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Drilling nightmare, laid W Barley straw

So out with the discs, 3 passes on the bad spots and it drilled

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Managed to get it rolled ..........just

Anyone else detest rolling with a passion ?

Auto steer is a step closer after the nightmare drilling and then getting the rolls out. [emoji848]
Next it will be spraying with no tramlines [emoji30]
Argh Andy that looks a right ballache, trash and residue management is such an important part of any direct drilling, often just for operator sanity let alone the actual growing crop. I know how you feel having had similar once or twice with my drill in the past, last year we had a couple of patches of 18 inch stubble, rather than the normal 6 inch, the drill just wouldn't go through which infuriated me massively and made me wonder wtf I was doing! If you can in the future I would cut a bit lower. My 2p, I know autosteer is expensive and can seem like a luxury but once you've got it you will wish you had gone and bought it 5 years ago it really is brilliant (not that it would sort out straw dragging issues). If you can afford it I would go for it, you only live once! Rolling with autosteer in good conditions is a great job :D
 

Steevo

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Location
Gloucestershire
Argh Andy that looks a right ballache, trash and residue management is such an important part of any direct drilling, often just for operator sanity let alone the actual growing crop. I know how you feel having had similar once or twice with my drill in the past, last year we had a couple of patches of 18 inch stubble, rather than the normal 6 inch, the drill just wouldn't go through which infuriated me massively and made me wonder wtf I was doing! If you can in the future I would cut a bit lower. My 2p, I know autosteer is expensive and can seem like a luxury but once you've got it you will wish you had gone and bought it 5 years ago it really is brilliant (not that it would sort out straw dragging issues). If you can afford it I would go for it, you only live once! Rolling with autosteer in good conditions is a great job :D

+1 on autosteer!
 

Mur Huwcun

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North West Wales
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Tidy clean machine. Have a 655 Special here that I bought three years ago when renovating the house. Not a week passes when it’s not used for something!! All the trades that came here loved it as I could lift anything onto scaffold or swing things in or out of the way and levelling and landscaping was easy! A 5 tonner and dumper would be handier but wont get anything for £5k.
 

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Tidy clean machine. Have a 655 Special here that I bought three years ago when renovating the house. Not a week passes when it’s not used for something!! All the trades that came here loved it as I could lift anything onto scaffold or swing things in or out of the way and levelling and landscaping was easy! A 5 tonner and dumper would be handier but wont get anything for £5k.
I would of liked a 4wd but nothing around at the moment that was within my price range, so I will see how much it does here. Will certainly be better than a spade or waiting for someone to turn up.
 

mixed breed

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Mixed Farmer
Nice day so unloaded my wheel barrows into our ultra modern grain storage :X3:
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Ive not got a ticket nor the right tackle to be operating this thing
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With the auger in earshot, I attacked a speed sensor. Not knowing how fast I'm going, I could live with, but the warning bleep does ya head in
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No doubt this little thing will be more than a ton of corn :facepalm:
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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